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13 So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors,[a] and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor.

The Nation’s Return to the Land

14 Therefore[b] look, days are coming,’ declares[c] Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives,[d] who led up the Israelites[e] from the land of Egypt,” 15 but only[f]As Yahweh lives,[g] who led up the Israelites[h] from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them,” for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors.[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:13 Or “fathers”
  2. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “To thus”
  3. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  5. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  6. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “but if”
  7. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  8. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  9. Jeremiah 16:15 Or “fathers”